Can we confirm the uconsole has a backlit keyboard? If yes how to activate it as tested in dark room and there is no lighting on the keyboard. But i have seen some mention it supports backlit keyboard?
It does, I’m not near mine right now but there is a fn key combo that will turn it on, just can’t remember which.
Yeah that’s what mine looks like as well. I would describe the second level as “good enough” - doesn’t blow me away, but gets the job done. Glad you figured it out.
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In real life is the light more uniform or are some keys hardly lit compared to others? I am aware taking a picture of this next to the quite bright screen might make a camera go a bit off.
@Qazax It’s not super uniform. A very MVP, utilitarian design. Probably better for the battery life that way anyways.
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It’s my uConsole - Black wifi only.
LED is max level.
Some key ( A, G, J, 7, 9 …) are bright.
Shift, Ctl … little bright.
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Came here as I was convinced it wasn’t working using the fn + space combo - but I guess as the images here kinda show it is just very dim. Useful in a dark room, but more or less invisible in any sort of daylight…
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It is pretty dim, but try pressing fn+space twice. There’s two levels of brightness, and I think a firmware bug in pre-update keyboards causes the first level to not work at all.
The keyboard firmware update is pretty nice anyway, it fixes some issues with the volume up/down: https://github.com/clockworkpi/uConsole/tree/master/images
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Cheers, I had noticed It needed pressing a few times, but It hadn’t clicked that the first level didn’t work at all. Updating the keyboard firmware was well worth doing 
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Not sure why you would need to see a keyboard backlight in daylight?
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is there a way to turn on the backlight in console mode? tried the key combo and it doesn’t work
The brighter ones are where the leds are located, there is a white plastic diffuser but I found its brighter without it so I removed it, the only problem with that is that the brighter spots get even brighter but doesn’t bother me
Just got my uConsole today. Same thing here exactly, but hey at least there is one.